Aspidopleurus kickapoo Alvarado-Ortega and Porras-Múzquiz 2012 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Aulopiformes

Full reference: J. Alvarado-Ortega and H.G. Porras-Múzquiz. 2012. The first American record of Aspidopleurus (Teleostei, Aulopiformes), from La Mula Quarry (Turonian), Coahuila State, Mexico. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 15(3):251-263

Belongs to Aspidopleurus according to J. Alvarado-Ortega and H.G. Porras-Múzquiz 2012

Sister taxon: Aspidopleurus cataphractus

Type specimen: MUZ 343, a skeleton

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at La Mula (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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